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62
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32613
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724
National Ranking
453

Jonathan Morduch publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jonathan Morduch sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 215 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Jonathan Morduch D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jonathan Morduch sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 62 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jonathan Morduch is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with significant contributions across subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Urban Studies, Media Technology, Sociology and Political Science, and Management Information Systems.

The scientist's scholarly output includes a wide range of topics centered around Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, ICT Impact and Policies, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance, Urban and Rural Development Challenges, COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts, Migration and Labor Dynamics, as well as Financial Literacy, Pension, and Retirement Analysis.

Jonathan Morduch has published multiple papers, including the following notable ones:

  • Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh (2020), published in American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • COVID-19 and the future of microfinance: evidence and insights from Pakistan (2020), published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Migration, externalities, and the diffusion of COVID-19 in South Asia (2020), published in Journal of Public Economics
  • COVID-19 and the Future of Microfinance: Evidence and Insights from Pakistan (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Poverty at Higher Frequency (2023), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

The venues where Jonathan Morduch frequently publishes include:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • American Economic Journal Applied Economics

They often collaborate with several coauthors, notably:

  • Saravana Ravindran
  • Abu Shonchoy
  • Jean N. Lee
  • Mahreen Mahmud
  • Timothy Ogden

Jonathan Morduch's body of work reveals an emphasis on experimental and applied economic research, especially related to financial inclusion and the impacts of technology and crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations. Their interdisciplinary approach incorporating economics, urban studies, and technology fields underscores the broad scope of their research interests and collaborations.

Best Publications

  • The microfinance promise

    Jonathan Morduch

  • The Economics of Microfinance

    Beatriz Armendáriz;Jonathan Morduch

  • Income Smoothing and Consumption Smoothing

    Jonathan Morduch

  • The Economics of Microfinance

    Beatriz de Aghion Armendariz;Jonathan Morduch

  • Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

    Daryl Collins;Jonathan Morduch;Stuart Rutherford;Orlanda Ruthven

  • Income Smoothing and Consumption Smoothing

    Jonathan Morduch

  • The microfinance schism

    Jonathan Morduch

  • Financial performance and outreach: a global analysis of leading microbanks*

    Robert Cull;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Jonathan Morduch

  • Microfinance meets the market

    Robert Cull;Asli Asli Demirgüç-Kunt;Jonathan Morduch

  • Does Microfinance Really Help the Poor? New Evidence from Flagship Programs in Bangladesh

    Jonathan Morduch

  • Between the state and the market : can informal insurance patch the safety net?

    Jonathan Morduch

  • Microfinance beyond group lending

    Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion;Jonathan Morduch

  • Poverty and Vulnerability

    Jonathan Morduch

  • Analysis of the Effects of Microfinance on Poverty Reduction

    Jonathan Morduch;Barbara Haley

  • The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence

    David Roodman;Jonathan Morduch

  • Rethinking Inequality Decomposition, with Evidence from Rural China

    Jonathan Morduch;Terry Sicular

  • The role of subsidies in microfinance: evidence from the Grameen Bank

    Jonathan Morduch

  • Is microfinance an effective strategy to reach the Millennium Development Goals

    Elizabeth Littlefield;Jonathan Morduch;Syed Hashemi

  • Access to Finance

    Dean Karlan;Jonathan Morduch

  • Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India

    Michal Bauer;Julie Chytilová;Jonathan Morduch

  • Does regulatory supervision curtail microfinance profitability and outreach

    Robert Cull;Asli Demirgüç-Kunt;Jonathan Morduch

  • Sibling rivalry and the gender gap: Evidence from child health outcomes in Ghana

    Ashish Garg;Jonathan Morduch

  • Microfinance meets the market

    Robert Cull;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Jonathan Morduch

  • Microfinance Beyond Group Lending

    Beatriz Armendariz;Beatriz Armendariz;Jonathan Morduch

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Cull
Robert Cull World Bank
Dean Karlan
Dean Karlan Northwestern University
Rajeev H. Dehejia
Rajeev H. Dehejia New York University
Ariane Szafarz
Ariane Szafarz Université Libre de Bruxelles
James R Hargreaves
James R Hargreaves London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jeffrey S. Hammer
Jeffrey S. Hammer Princeton University
Ariel Dinar
Ariel Dinar University of California, Riverside
Dilip Mookherjee
Dilip Mookherjee Boston University

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